Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Hassles, Medical Psychology, Biopsychosocial Model

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Psychology 2030a chapter 14 lecture 9. Uses principles and methods from psychology to understand how attitudes and behaviours influence health illness. Behavioural medicine behaviour + biomedical science. Medical psychology psychology related to health, illness + medical treatment. Biopsychosocial model: health = psychological, social + biological. In the past, only biological causes used to identify medical illnesses. Freud linked the mind + body to explain conversion disorder. Today, psychologists use prevention, treatment, or management of physical health problems. Role of stress in physical and mental health. Stress negative emotional response (e. g. fear, tension) along with physiological, cognitive, and behavioural responses aimed at changing or adjusting to the stressor. Stressor any event that produces stress. Get rid of or deal with problem: emotional-focused. When you can"t get rid of stressor. Acute stress paradigm short-term stress created in lab, and its impact on physiological, neuroendocrine,, and psychological responses measured. The hassles scale measures daily hassles (e. g. waiting in queue, traffic)